The Urban Grooves: Album II (1999)

About this title: The cover and inside booklet of Down to the Bone's second album shows a variety of rare-groove record stores (both inside and out), displaying racks of records by Weather Report, Lonnie Liston Smith and Donald Byrd. The music itself is a delicious update of those same sounds -- yes, the grooves are tighter and have a bit of hip-hop bounce, but the soloing is far and away superior to most acid-jazz releases. Programmers and group frontmen Stuart Wade and Chris Morgans have the irresistible knack of translating their influences into an instantly familiar yet radically different style of music, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Long Way from Brooklyn [Wade/Morgans]
2. The Zodiac [Wade/Cowley]
3. To the Bone [Wade/Morgans]
4. Joy Is a Good Groove [Wade/Morgans/Cowley]
5. Urban Jazz [Wade]
6. Fusion Food [Wade]
7. Vinyl Junkie [Wade/Morgans/Cowley]
8. Yo Man It's Herbie [Wade/Morgans/Cowley]
9. Bump 'N' Hustle [Wade/Morgans]
10. Right on Baby - Yeah! [Wade/Morgans/Cowley]
11. A Little Touch of Soul [Wade]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.